AheadForm shows a lifelike humanoid robot at WAIC with blinking, eye contact, and facial motion
Kuprel · x · 2026-07-21
Chinese robotics company AheadForm is said to have unveiled one of the world’s most lifelike humanoid robots at WAIC 2026 in Shanghai, with natural conversation, eye contact, blinking, realistic facial expressions, and synchronized head-and-face motion.
The author’s reaction turns it into a joke about how soon such robots may be able to run faster than humans, beat them in hand-to-hand combat, and even make people fall in love with them.
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